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What happened? Immediately after the attacks, world leaders and central bankers sprang into action. President Bush pledged relief funds and a stimulus package, the U.S. Congress promised bailout packages, and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan flooded the U.S. markets with liquidity (read cash) and slashed interest rates three times and counting. In Europe, interest rates were cut by the Bank of England and, finally, by the European Central Bank. The terror attacks have resulted in the most pointed and pronounced response to any recession or slowdown in history. That alone could cause the global economy to bounce back fast...
...film that made Jet Li, remade Shaolin. Suddenly the temple was swarming with visitors?both tourists and wannabe Jet Lis. The Chinese government, now aware of Shaolin's lucrative allure, resolved to rescue it from its exile in ideological ignominy. Crumbled buildings were resurrected. Secular martial-arts training academies sprang up around the temple's walls to cater to the region's flood of aspirants. And the monks?whose ranks had swelled slightly since the end of the Cultural Revolution?were reincarnated as shills for a host of marketing schemes, from coffee-table books and calendars to performance tours...
...stage show does a decent job of keeping the audience distracted from the limited range and stunted quality of the actual songs. Singer Mitchell is the perfect spokesman for Geek Metal, looking to all the world like a nerd who played air guitar in grade school and somehow sprang to life under the lights. When he sings, he sways hunched-shouldered at the front of the stage like a child with a heavy backpack, letting words push their way forth from his poor twisted mouth. When he dances, he jerks his body back and forth with near-alarming abruptness...
...recall with nostalgia your computer’s first days out of the box: a simpler time, when she hurtled through her self-test; when the nifty “Available Disk Space” piechart showed seven gigabytes of untrammeled roominess; when windows and menus sprang from her toolbars like a great splash in a clear lake; when your desktop sat empty and content, like a mid-day showing of Serendipity. What is it, then, that drives us to engage in unprotected interface with these ill-intentioned download sites? Certainly this irresponsible behavior is not a means to some...
They come from different parts of the technology universe. Computer powerhouse Hewlett-Packard is an invention factory that has created hundreds of products, things like the handheld calculator, over its 62-year history. Compaq hasn't really invented anything. It sprang to life as an IBM-clone maker in 1982 and shot into the FORTUNE 500 in record time on the basis of its ability to give consumers low-priced machines built with mostly off-the-shelf parts...